Othello Quotes
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Othello Quotes & Sayings
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'Othello' is the most domestic of Shakespeare's tragedies and the one that's likely to strike a personal note with a lot of people watching it.
— Andrew Davies
I've done 'Two Gentlemen of Verona,' I've understudied Iago in 'Othello.' I've done Mercutio in 'Romeo and Juliet.'
— Robert Englund
There is magic in the web Shakespeare (Othello, Act 3, Scene 4)
— William Shakespeare
And what's he then that says I play the villain?
— William Shakespeare
I am no Othello, Othello was a lie.
— Tayeb Salih
Even in the days when they did Othello, you didn't necessarily have to be black to play Othello. You wore the makeup.
— Jamie Farr
Why should we censure Othello when the Criterion Lover says, "Thou shalt have no other Gods before Me"?
— Emily Dickinson
I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear
— William Shakespeare
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richard III sometime.
— Ted Lange
To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast! — William Shakespeare
I look forward to the day when indigenous actors can play Hamlet and Ophelia and not just Othello and Desdemona.
— Shari Sebbens
Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace.
— William Shakespeare
Why, the wrong is but a wrong i'th'world; and having the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it a right.
— William Shakespeare
When devils will the blackest sins put onThey do suggest at first with heavenly shows — William Shakespeare
Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is the green eyed monster which doth mock.
— William Shakespeare
Brabantio: "You are a villain!"Iago: "You are a senator! — William Shakespeare
Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.
— Agatha Christie
OTHELLO Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune, And sweet revenge grows harsh. DESDEMONA O, falsely, falsely murder'd!
— William Shakespeare
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again.
— William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's 'Othello' was inspired by Cinthio's 'A Moorish Captain'; his 'Hamlet' came from Saxo Grammaticus's 'Amleth.'
— Malorie Blackman
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.
— Brand Blanshard
I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III.
— Ving Rhames
Have not we affections and desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
— William Shakespeare
And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.
— William Shakespeare
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food. To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
They belch us.
-Emilia — William Shakespeare
I think the sun where he were born drew all such humours from him. - 3.4.26
— William Shakespeare
Assure thee, if I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it to the last article. Othello, Act III, Scene iii — William Shakespeare
But I have known many womenmany women indeed, and it is in their nature to confound us, Othello. They are all by their natures lovely lunatics. — Christopher Moore
I played Othello, but I didn't sit around thinking how Laurence Olivier did it when he played it. That wouldn't do me any good.
— Denzel Washington
I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would be interesting to see that black evil come out of my soul.
— Kyle MacLachlan
Who can control his fate? asks the ruined Othello. No one, indeed. But everyone controls his option, chooses his alternative.
— Joseph Furphy
